[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens

From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:21:56 -0700 (PDT)

I couldn't say it better myself. I'm glad I read
further in my mail before answering you, Lora.
G.Cindy
--- Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Lora,
>
> It is just my opinion, but I think that any
> book that will
> be handled by a person willing to read it through is
> well worth
> waiting for. We will all benefit from your reading
> it through, and
> as you can renew the book as many times as you need
> to do that, time
> is really of no importance. So, enjoy the book, in
> my opinion, take
> your time, and be proud of the beautifully edited
> book that we all
> using the Bookshare collection will thank you for.
> A careful
> validator is worth several lazy ones, in my opinion,
> and to be
> terribly cliche, "haste makes waste." So, take your
> time, and I, at
> least, thank you for your work.
>
> Peace,
> Mayrie
>
> At 04:09 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
> >I'm validating a book that has numerous words
> broken up by soft
> >hyphens. I'd like to fix these, especially because
> they're not
> >words at the end of lines or pages, just random
> words in the middle
> >of various lines. I tried selecting the soft
> hyphen, and copying it
> >into the Find box so I could locate other
> occurrences, but it won't
> >copy and paste. Is there an easy way to find this
> soft hyphen?
> >
> >This book poses another problem. There are lots of
> the common
> >scanos in it. For instance, 1 for I, rime for
> time, etc. I've
> >fixed the ones I found as I skimmed the book, but
> many of these
> >won't register in the spell checker. I suppose it
> means I should
> >read them through. The real tricky one is "me" for
> "the." I
> >suspect, if the OCR did that, it did some other
> funky stuff for the
> >letters th. This is a long book. It's Buddhism in
> Action. Knowing
> >I can be a slow validator, should I return it, or
> take the time to
> >read through it. I'm interested in the book, and
> will gladly read
> >it cover to cover, but at over 400 pages, this
> could take me a
> >while. The scan is generally excellent, but there
> are lots of these
> >little OCR quirks.
> >
> >Advice is welcome.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Lora
> >
>
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